tools for moving partitions

tools for moving partitions

[Christopher Moore]

Hello,
Anyone know of tools for moving hard disk partitions?  I have a drive with 4 partitions with a large gap between 2 and 3.  I want to move 3 and 4 to the 
left so I can create some extended partitions at the end of the drive.  

I've read that gparted can do the job, but it's a graphical tool.

Chris

Re: tools for moving partitions

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.  Gparted is a gnome app, so it should be accessible.
I know I've used it while installing Ubuntu systems, but didn't attempt to do what you are trying.
I don't remember having any accessibility issues doing my partition setup.

          Kenny

On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 07:15:20PM -0400, Christopher Moore wrote:
> Hello,
> Anyone know of tools for moving hard disk partitions?  I have a drive with 4 partitions with a large gap between 2 and 3.  I want to move 3 and 4 to the 
> left so I can create some extended partitions at the end of the drive.  
> 
> I've read that gparted can do the job, but it's a graphical tool.
> 
> Chris
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Re: tools for moving partitions

[Deedra Waters]

Not everyone uses gnome though, would be nice to see a cli app do something like it.
Kenny Hitt wrote
| Hi.  Gparted is a gnome app, so it should be accessible.
| I know I've used it while installing Ubuntu systems, but didn't attempt to do what you are trying.
| I don't remember having any accessibility issues doing my partition setup.
| 
|           Kenny
| 
| On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 07:15:20PM -0400, Christopher Moore wrote:
| > Hello,
| > Anyone know of tools for moving hard disk partitions?  I have a drive with 4 partitions with a large gap between 2 and 3.  I want to move 3 and 4 to the 
| > left so I can create some extended partitions at the end of the drive.  
| > 
| > I've read that gparted can do the job, but it's a graphical tool.
| > 
| > Chris
| > _______________________________________________
| > Speakup mailing list
| > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
| > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
| _______________________________________________
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Re: tools for moving partitions

[pj]

Christopher Moore wrote:
> I have a drive with 4 partitions with a large gap between 2 and 3.
> I want to move 3 and 4 to the left so I can create some extended
> partitions at the end of the drive.
> I've read that gparted can do the job, but it's a graphical tool.

If gparted can do it, then parted should also be able to do it.
man parted  reveals that one of its available commands is  move:
  move partition start end
    Move  partition  so  that  it begins at start and ends
    at end.  Note: move never changes the minor number.

I agree with you about graphical tools :-)

Regards,  Peter Billam

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